Dr. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder of J-PAL. In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies.
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She received 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Professor Esther Duflo co-authored ‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty’, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and she also recently wrote Good Economics for Hard Times. Her first degrees were in history and economics from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris and her Ph.D. is in Economics from MIT.
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- Esther Duflo, MIT, J-PAL, 2019 Noble prizewinner in Economic Sciences
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- Farah Said, LUMS and Ali Cheema, LUMS, IDEAS, CERP
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